1. [n]  a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
2. [n]  the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe
3. [n]  a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
4. [n]  the quantity a scoop will hold
5. [n]  a hollow concave shape made by removing something
6. [v]  get the better of
7. [v]  take out or up with or as if with a scoop
8. [v]  profit suddenly

Scoop
In Waugh`s satire of journalism and politics, William Boot, a naive young writer from a small county village, is summoned to London through a series of misunderstandings and sent abroad as a foreign correspondent. In Africa he is thrown into the midst of revolution and civil war, managing, through luck and sheer naivete, to have the story of the decade dropped into his lap. Waugh considered this comic novel to be light and excellent, and SCOOP is generally considered to be one of the best novels ever written about journalists.

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1. \Scoop\, n.
   A beat. [Newspaper Slang]
   

2. \Scoop\, v. t.
   To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang]
   

3. \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa,
   akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E.
   shove. See {Shovel}.]
   1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for
      dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
   2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out
      and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop;
      the scoop of a dredging machine.
   3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting
      certain substances or foreign bodies.
   4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
            Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R.
                                                  Drake.
   5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
   6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a
      motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
   {Scoop net}, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net
      for sweeping the bottom of a river.
   {Scoop wheel}, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or
      buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
   

4. \Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Scooping}.] [OE. scopen. See {Scoop}, n.]
   1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
            He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
                                                  --Dryden.
   2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
   3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig
      out; to form by digging or excavation.
            Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to
            hold above a pint.                    --Arbuthnot.
   

Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.

["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].